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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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What's your greatest fear as a parent? If you're feeling bombarded with fears today, John and Danny will share parts of their story and offer a reminder on what you can control in parenting. Plus, Jim Daly speaks with Gary Thomas about how he's learned to trust God with his children.
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| 0:00.0 | All right here's a really important question and I want you to think about it honestly. |
| 0:08.0 | What's your greatest fear as a mom or a dad? Your greatest parenting fear. I'll give you a second to ponder that. I'll share |
| 0:15.6 | that for me, one of my biggest fears was during a season of acting out. One of our kids was acting out in some pretty dangerous ways. |
| 0:26.4 | And I was seriously concerned for their life and for decisions being made in this season that might affect the rest of their life. |
| 0:37.2 | I prayed a lot, a whole lot then. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny, Danny, you're a trained Christian counselor, |
| 0:46.0 | so you don't have any fear. |
| 0:48.0 | You've never had any moments of fear, I'm sure, |
| 0:51.0 | or have you. |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, I'm being facetious obviously I think we're always |
| 0:56.2 | We're always subject to some sort of fear as moms and dads how about you what there's not there's nothing wrong with feeling the feeling of fear. |
| 1:04.0 | That's a normal reaction of something that you don't want to have happen. |
| 1:08.0 | And besides my daughter doing aerial acrobatics and the potential for her to get hurt. |
| 1:14.0 | So she's way up there off the ground. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, yeah, she's way up there and upside down with her neck pointing down. |
| 1:20.0 | Certainly there have been moments of nervousness there. |
| 1:23.0 | But I would say I experienced the greatest fear, probably when they started to drive, |
| 1:29.0 | in the consideration of the potential for an accident to happen and getting that phone call that something |
| 1:36.3 | has happened. |
| 1:37.3 | I've walked that journey with several families on the on the counseling side of things. |
| 1:44.6 | And so you know the abruptness of that, |
| 1:48.3 | the sudden moment of just shifting in your life when that happens. |
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